[Nagios-users] Storage question

2009-06-21 Thread Alexandra Kisin
Hello, Guys. I'm going to setup a Nagios server at my site. It will be a virtual machine which will perform monitoring on about 1000 Linux/Unix servers. My question is regarding the storage space I need to allocate for my Nagios server. I don't know if it is using a lot of storage for logs, or

Re: [Nagios-users] Storage question

2009-06-21 Thread Allan Clark
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:35, Alexandra Kisin ki...@il.ibm.com wrote: Hello, Guys. I'm going to setup a Nagios server at my site. It will be a virtual machine which will perform monitoring on about 1000 Linux/Unix servers. My question is regarding the storage space I need to allocate for

Re: [Nagios-users] Using passive host checks and freshness

2009-06-21 Thread Kevin Keane
I found the problem. Host freshness checks were turned off in nagios.cfg. Kevin Keane wrote: I am using Nagios 3.0.6. In my setup, most checks are passive. I also am using passive host checks. I can't get freshness checking to work right for host checks, though it works fine for services.

[Nagios-users] Relations between .cfg files - problems in Learning Nagios 3.0

2009-06-21 Thread Whit Blauvelt
Hi all, Due to my not taking to the style of the online docs (good for reference, not so much for learning), got a copy of Kocjan's Learning NAGIOS 3.0 - well organized, good accessible writing style. Gave me a much clearer picture of the theory. But the examples are partly broken. First off,

Re: [Nagios-users] Found the typo (one of many) in Learning Nagios 3.0

2009-06-21 Thread Whit Blauvelt
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:47:03PM -0400, Whit Blauvelt wrote: define host { use generic-server nameubuntu alias ubuntu (scripts) address 192.168.1.136 contact_groups linux-admins } Ah,

Re: [Nagios-users] Relations between .cfg files - problems in Learning Nagios 3.0

2009-06-21 Thread Carsten Schmidt
Hi Whit, define host { namegeneric-server check_command check-host-alive check_interval 5 retry_interval 1 max_check_attempts 5 check_period24x7 notification_interval 30 notification_period

Re: [Nagios-users] Found the typo (one of many) in Learning Nagios 3.0

2009-06-21 Thread Max
Hi Whit, Authors are usually very glad to hear this kind of feedback and send corrections to the publisher (not that the publisher will necessarily respond quickly). Trust me when I say that some (not all, not naming names :p) publishers 1) do not provide any assistance with technical reviews